YEARS AGO FOR DEC. 30
Today is Saturday, Dec. 30, the 364th day of 2017. There is one day left in the year.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
On this date in:
1853: The United States and Mexico sign a treaty under which the U.S. agrees to buy some 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico for $10 million in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase.
1922: Vladimir Lenin proclaims the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which would last nearly seven decades before dissolving in December 1991.
1936: The United Auto Workers union stages its first “sit-down” strike at the General Motors Fisher Body Plant No. 1 in Flint, Mich. (The strike lasted until Feb. 11, 1937.)
1942: A near-riot of bobby-soxers greets the opening of Frank Sinatra’s singing engagement at the Paramount Theater in New York’s Times Square.
1979: Broadway composer Richard Rodgers dies in New York at 77.
1999: Former Beatle George Harrison fights off a knife-wielding intruder who’d broken into his mansion west of London and stabbed him in the chest. (The attacker was later acquitted of attempted murder by reason of insanity.)
VINDICATOR FILES
1992: The Mill Creek Metropolitan Park District has yet to receive a proposal for development of an inn on property along U.S. Route 224, but some local environmentalists are urging park commissioners to reconsider the idea.
Bill Cowher, first-year coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers, does what his predecessor Chuck Noll never did in 23 seasons: win the National Football League Coach of the Year award.
Farrell firefighters say they will file an unfair labor charge against the city over plans to merge the Farrell and Sharon fire departments.
1977: Craig Carlile, 31, a pilot for Dade Air Charter of Youngstown is presumed dead after his airplane disappeared a week before over Lake Erie.
John Kenley, who has produced musical theater at Packard Music Hall in Warren for 20 years, is moving to the E. J. Thomas Hall at the University of Akron.
Mahoning County commissioners are considering removing the Welfare Department as the administrative agency for the county nursing home.
Thieves loot an undetermined amount of mail from two U.S. Postal trucks in Youngstown while mailmen were out of the trucks making deliveries.
1967: Investigators ask 15 employees of Kane Secret Service who had access to keys to an armored car that was taken from the Almart department store parking lot in Boardman to take lie-detector tests.
Juvenile Court referee Joseph Bryan recommends that 17-year-old Brownlee Woods youth who committed 45 burglaries be sentenced to the Mansfield Reformatory, an adult prison.
A fire deliberately set causes $9,000 damage to the home of John DiAntonio on U.S. Route 62 six miles south of Canfield.
Richard Riley, telegraph editor of The Vindicator, is elected to his third-consecutive term as president of Local 11, American Newspaper Guild, at the annual meeting in the Hotel Ohio.
1942: Sixteen “C” gasoline ration coupon books have been returned to Mahoning County’s ration boards because the motorists to whom they were issued found they did not need the extra gas.
Youngstown district steel mills began curbing operations because of a threatened gas shortage due to a gas-line break in West Virginia.
Tom Shephard, a 62-year-old Neshannock Township farmer, grief stricken over the death of his dog, a companion for many years, shoots himself at the grave of the dog on his farm.